Cruelty Quotes - Page 10

• Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

  Anne Rice

  Self, Doe, Loathing

  Anne Rice (2000). “Merrick: a novel”, Knopf Canada

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• Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Silly, Animal, Hunting

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• And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Demand, Deeds, Rewards

  "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis, California Books Inc., (p. 36), August 7, 2014.

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• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Order, People

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• Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

  Alice Walker

  Animal, Pet, Ignored

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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• Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

  Nalini Singh

  People, Over You, Emotion

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• Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Kissing, Loveless, Fronts

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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• Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Heart, Thinking, Law

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• She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Admiration

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.

  Terry Goodkind

  Heart, Said

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Temple Of The Winds”, p.80, Head of Zeus

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• Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

  Anais Nin

  Crush, Hurt, June

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• It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

  Susan Cain

  People, Tragedy, World

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Hurt, Memories

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Doe, Way

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• Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Hands, People, Unlimited

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.185, Random House Group

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• Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

  Anne Holm

  Stupid, Blow, Hands

  Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

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• When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Play, Justice

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

  Adam Smith

  Patriotic, Government, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.

  Robert Muchamore

  Jobs, Couple, Kids

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• I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will be the merciful thing.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Skulls, Long

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• It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

  Veronica Roth

  Desire

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• There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Men, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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